Improvement in paper boxes



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. PAPER BOX.

No. 190,454. Patented May 8,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. TAYLOR, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PAPER BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,454, dated May 8,1877; application filed April 18, 1877.

To all whom it may concern Bewit known that I, CHARLES F. TAYLOR, ofSpringfield, county of Hampden, and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Paper Boxes, and in the kerfson the folding-lines, to make it convenient to fold the blank into a boxshape, and, by metallic or other simple fastenings, complete it withoutthe employment of any cementing substance.

In the drawing, A, Figure 1, represents the blank cut in the formrequired for my box. The V-shaped cuts H in the two opposite sides ofthe blank show the only places where there is any portion of the pieceof paper originally taken to make the box of that is out out and wasted.The lines B B are the longitudinal folding-lines of the bottom corners,as well as for the bottom end fold. The lines D D, converging from thelines I I to the points of the V-shaped cuts H, permit of the infold ofthat part of the blank embraced by the figures 1 2 3, thus allowing ofbringing up together the edges 4 4, which overlap, so as to admitofconvenient fastening at or about the points 5. The lines I I I permitof the bottom fold and the upright corner fold of the ends of the box.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the box, showing the relativepositions of the parts of the blank when folded into a box shape andfastened.

The operations in making this box are, first, to provide a piece ofpaper of the size and proportions demanded for the proposed box;secondly, make the V-shaped cuts H; thirdly, cut or kerf thefolding-lines; fourthly, lift up and press inwardlyagainst the blank atthe base of the V-shaped cuts, folding that portion down upon thebottom. That movement draws up the sides of the box, and brings the twohalves of each end up together, slight- 1y overlapping each other, wherethey may be fastened by an ordinary metallic paper-fastener or otherconvenient means.

What I claim as my invention is- A paper box made from theabove-mentioned blank, with the excavated or semicut kerfs B B, D I),and-II, and the V-shaped openings H on opposite borders thereof,substantially as set forth.

CHAS. F. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

H. A. CHAPIN, W. H. CHAPIN-

